We’re always looking for great story ideas and we’re always looking for ways to better serve and met the needs of our customers.
With that in mind, this week, we’re introducing two new ideas:
Voice Your Story and The Voice Community Calendar Newsletter – coming in May.
Voice Your Story
Do you have a story idea that you think would be great for us to cover?
We’re setting time aside each Monday for you to Voice Your Story idea to our editors and reporting team.
You’ll have up to 15 minutes to share your idea, so come prepared.
You don’t have to have a written press release but come with some information especially names, emails and telephone numbers for people our reporters can reach out to for further development of the story. The more detail you have the better.
For the more professional marketers who may or may not have sent us a press release, this is a great opportunity for you to expand beyond your release. It helps our reporters get additional background information, without passing more emails and making more telephone calls. It’s also your chance to convince us your story is a good match for our paper.
We make no guarantee that we’ll cover every story that’s pitched to us. Some stories just aren’t a match for our publication and we also have a very limited reporting team, which limit our ability to cover every story. .
However, we’re really excited about the opportunity to find out about more great things going on in our readership area and in making connections for future stories.
Make Your Appointment
- The appointment deadline for each Monday is the Thursday before.
- Appointments are on a first come, first serve basis.
- FYI, we blocked off a few Mondays, mostly for holidays.
The Voice Print Calendar
Our print calendar is really growing and it’s starting to take up a lot of our often limited print space, so we’re beginning the process of transitioning the calendar to a Thursday afternoon newsletter.
More details are coming. We promise we’ll make it easy for you to sign up for the newsletter, which will come out each Thursday, just in time for your weekend.
If you have an event, we’ll also have a way for you to submit your event flier.
The Voice Community Calendar will be visual, easy to read, full of fab events and free for both the event sponsor and as always free for our readers.
Stay tuned for more information on this move in our May 3 paper.
